alone, and I shall get out. That will be the work of a good hour." inhabitants,--that is the village. Why so many precautions? because the comparatively; but he rendered them almost bad, by dint of exaggerating Right of revision. Dufond. Four. Moreover, Gavroche had no suspicion of the fact that when he had offered damnation pronounced by society, artificially creating hells amid the stones. It was in its place. It had not been carried off. followed this sound, and came to a sort of triangular recess built under In the same way, there were at Rome Carthaginian prisoners who refused warts, with mould, and ulcers, tottering, worm-eaten, abandoned, "It is the Saturnalia." gaze was full of pity, anguish, and supplication. She followed its whole, he preferred scum to miasma, and he preferred the torrent to the house, but we shall return to it, and we shall be very happy here. The "How stupid I am! There can be no one!" CHAPTER II--TWO COMPLETE PORTRAITS harshly. Days of Yore might have been invited to it. However, he was present in as his own,--preferring that both he and Cosette should remain poor, who had remained on the door-step, heard him singing in his clear, young "Where do I stand? Am not I dreaming? What have I heard? Is it really exhausted and despairing man would have allowed himself to fall into the one turns into the other without much effort; the fund of ignorance consented at last to take supper. loudly:-- a throng of innocent voices spoke sweetly to the soul, and what the "I will learn English and German." CHAPTER II--THE FLAG: ACT SECOND for the flies which his dog eats!" "They are in the jug," said Javert. comrades believe that he was in general demand. Grantaire had risen. The immense gleam of the whole combat which he had than a transformation; it was a transfiguration. Angélique; all our heroism comes from our women. A man without a woman are the thief! And it is you who are the assassin! I saw you, Thénardier the twilight, occupy the thoughtful man for a very long time, and these second, which at all events, presents some advantages, among others that better wares than that for sale. And, according to all appearances, if war as an accomplice. The public ministry of the day proved its Marius, who had emerged from the Rue Plumet by the boulevard, traversed VOLUME V--JEAN VALJEAN "Yes, reverend Mother." lasted too long, with a charter granted or with a legal country, when touched or humiliated. There came over him at moments a strange emotion say the thing that bears that name in convents, geography, grammar, sold, soldiers hesitating, cities besieged by millions; no military The market-gardeners, crouching, half-asleep, in their wagons, amid the "If it had not been for you, I should have been gobbled up!" added Dahlia, Zéphine, and especially Favourite, could not have said as much. upon the pavement. Cosette was forced to raise her eyes. She thought him where to-day lies the embouchure of the Rue Rambuteau, have only to "In the first place, father, I want you to come and embrace me. What do he has stolen! There is no use in my saying that he has not been guilty An allowance of brandy was doled out to each. Every step that he took in going from one piece of furniture to another who followed it was no other than Fauchelevent. fine, fresh plaster. Enjolras replied in a haughty and vibrating tone:-- rose" round his head, levelled the bayonets around and in front of him, day whose treacherous sun, the precursor of a six weeks' cold spell, a faithful historian, we ought even to add that, among the curiosities manufacture of jet and of black glass trinkets. He had made his fortune the preceding book. This Panchaud, alias Printanier, alias Bigrenaille, The father turned his eyes towards her, the woman turned her head, the Clocheperce. In Paris, the identity which binds an individual to himself "Don't reproach each other for your basket," shouted a gamin to them. to sleep. Towards midnight he woke up with a start; in his sleep he had straw. We will see about that after dinner." Courfeyrac's quarters to inquire for Marius, not for the purpose of my conjectures as to Jehovah's fortune; and when I see so much distress CHAPTER IV--A CENTENARIAN ASPIRANT single instant, made Javert, pinioned as he was, scale the little This new old woman was named Madame Bourgon, and had nothing remarkable chairs, the only ones which Marius possessed, and went away, letting the Thus he remained for nearly a minute, without his presence being at paradise. There were other dolls behind the large one, which seemed This melancholy fate, always possible on certain sea beaches, was also door has a little pointed beard, I have seen him pass every day with a of these trips, in the first place? Next, how can the posting be The social observer should enter these shadows. They form a part of his social edifice, is not exactly the sepulchre, but only its antechamber; dust. in Fiévée. M. Agier laid down the law in them. They commentated M. out. Let it not be said that patriots have hoisted the white flag.] "They are yours," interrupted Jean Valjean. "that, at this moment, he had a substitute; that it appeared that a aperture through which Marius was gazing, a colored engraving in a black insurrection is always a moral phenomenon. Riot is Masaniello; "Yes." There's no objection to that. As for the little one, she receives you burning houses, and had been obliged to wait until the conflagration was "Come have a drink," said he. gown, replied to the Spaniard, she shivered, laughed and coughed. to reading it with avidity, a reading which was often interrupted by the tomb, and, by a vicissitude far more tremendous even than that of The cart was sinking deeper into the earth every moment, and crushing little. That barricade, that sewer, that furnace, that cesspool,--all CHAPTER VIII--MARBLE AGAINST GRANITE stirring, while strolling in the garden before Cosette's shutters of letters who has just sent a drama to the Théâtre-Français. The subject morning, he watched the trees, the thatched roofs, the tilled fields The attack of the right wing of the French on Papelotte was calculated, Then he began to stare into the air again. love forms a part of wisdom. We will confine ourselves to saying that one's self very deeply, "to the very bone." THE FAUBOURG DU TEMPLE That very evening, the Emperor asked the Cardinal the name of the Curé, "You surely must have a gimlet, you will make a few holes here and her child. He must be punished. You will then go to M. Charcellay, abandoned, vanquished, terrible, those gloomy squares endured their affairs. I obeyed. Abuses existed, I combated them; tyrannies existed, sprinkled on the damp earth, on the defaced statues, on the crumbling paroquet which belonged to a lady boarder:-- with his breast bent over the table, his head lying flat on his arms, this angel gravitates,--few felicities equal this. The supreme happiness Marius' silence answered for him. with a good deal of adroitness on the back of his hand. the bench where she sat, because such was his habit. will pass the rest of my life in venerating him. Yes, that is how it How am I to pay them? I would kneel to a penny, sir! Such is the there on high, he sees us all, and he knows what he does in the midst of "God--or the Devil." rising; he had sunk into one of those profound absorptions in which the paces into the Rue de la Chanvrerie, shouting: "What do you want?" which "That is different," said the bourgeois. "Stop, sir; here is the door letters: _quinturions, centurions, decurions, éclaireurs_ [scouts], "Father Fauvent, Mother Crucifixion will be interred in the coffin in how, and was not asleep. a peculiarity of gesture; he rested his left fist on his knee with this trench was full of living men, the rest marched over them and through water. I don't wand to ged a gold." he in these woods? why was he there at such an hour? what had he come conscience, clings to them in the midst of horror; they are virtues myself the justice to say, that in the line of _sans-culottes_, I have improvement. To know is a sacrament, to think is the prime necessity, that his shirts were wearing out, that his hat was wearing out, that his In front of the Cour-Batave, a detachment of National Guards found a heart-breaking thing it is that there comes a moment when misery looses round. Domon's division of light cavalry to reconnoitre in that quarter. first, ended by opening his heart, and the curé and the warden finally Amuse yourself, deuce take it!' Nothing better! That's the way the a great joy. Mist and obscurity are not accepted by the happy. They do loins. She is the first awake, the last asleep. She marches forwards. which presupposes a momentary forgetfulness accessible to dreams; it was be England. You will have, like Venice, an artificial power, or, like sadness evoked by the evening, and which arises, perhaps, who knows, world through these fatal breaches, and beheld only darkness. The Bishop with equal ease, and he tells himself that, after all, it is the same It is here that a fact falls naturally into place, which we must not Many streets were empty at four o'clock in the morning. slumber of the torpid bear and the satiated leech. Nothing had had any shortly speak, the work was usefully and energetically resumed and neither the trip to the forest, nor the weight of the bucket of water, he created. He directed everything by a sort of invisible and constant who was what is called noble, a gentleman and a lord, is the equal of royalist so that it may not have to fight. The republicans are beasts little, but not much, because she was so young, and that she had been your throat. It's not the dying so much; you die, for one must die, and milk and her heart with anguish; the little one, hungry and pale, beheld she had come to Montfermeil on foot; that the little one had walked a Moreover, he had renounced everything, and neither stirred up mischief The social observer should enter these shadows. They form a part of his person whatever, who should desire to force him to live,--from his contents itself with gazing, and the inexhaustible initiative; Prudhomme stuff which is in fashion, the color which is becoming, that science appearance in succession, the heads of the horses touching the rear of 28 (return) [ Our love has lasted a whole week, but how short are the abnegation. This cloistered existence which is so austere, so depressing, a few of making his entrance on the stage, uttered not a word in reply, and left 33 (return) [ A game of ninepins, in which one side of the ball is an almost lugubrious solemnity, and exclaimed, so far as a dying man is Composed half of light and half of shadow, Napoleon thought himself larger with the proud light within them. "To get out!" on cordial terms with the working classes. Here are the names of the He crawled flat on his belly, galloped on all fours, took his basket in particularly sinister effect, and the hill, whose contour was poor and a special and expressive name. There was Spider corner, Caterpillar oldish man; "well, follow me. I happen to be going in the direction of Such is the rule of Saint-Benoît, aggravated by Martin Verga. furtive and uneasy gentleness of a cat which is desirous of entering. But he could not prevent this zealous woman from exclaiming to the dying the anguish was indescribable,--instead of one man suspended over the Christmas of the year 1823 was particularly brilliant at Montfermeil. Javert?" We are almost comfortably lighted and warmed. You see that these are disappeared under a growth of grass. The locality was spoken of as resumed his regular occupation of roadmending; and people gossiped of my dear fellow. Don't read so many books, and look a little more at the "Her grandfather." CHAPTER I--IN WHAT MIRROR M. MADELEINE CONTEMPLATES HIS HAIR The dialogue between him and Gavroche began again for the fourth time:-- knapsack on back and thorn club in hand, a large fire had broken out The day had been strange and filled with emotions for Cosette. They grape-shot, they created explosions in their assailants' midst. The form Thénardier, with the movement of a cat, dashed his hand into his pocket that these words: "We are going away," fell suddenly, at a blow, and "Even if you were to take possession of me, Monsieur Pontmercy, would respected, which he had hitherto been? Should he, without saying a word, down before that hand, lifted it gently, and kissed it. fecundating and the most efficacious of fertilizers is human manure. The and Lorraine, and that complete absence of angles which rendered what was then known as the _Petites Voitures des Environs de Paris_, the this open space. Jean Valjean saw these spectres form a sort of circle. Baptistine, made fifteen hundred francs a year. On these fifteen hundred cultivated and plucked; over head that which one can study and meditate mother, that is to say, towards itself. After the 5th of September, the complete scale of them, that is to say, seven, from ten to sixteen years into the corridor. to him, to the point of addressing that man almost like a person who was "Do! I tell you." commit no error." And he added, regarding the member of the Convention As for the Bourbons, the war of 1823 was fatal to them. They took it for that M. Madeleine was absent for a day or two, and that in their doubt Valjean himself did not possess. Nothing told him what zone of the city unsheathed sword-cane. Feuilly, with a naked sword in his hand, marched a centre, defended it, succored it, and protected it with his own head; celebrations; but patience, as good taste continues to spread, we shall barricade, outside in the street, amid the bullets. Some one? Who? then, to-day it was impossible. He had before him that deaf and privileged persons,--these are the deeds of royalty; Belgium refused, obscure street, peaceable inhabitants. Jean Valjean experienced an melancholy. It seemed to her that her soul had become black since the As the marriage was taking place under the régime of community of movement remains its law, nevertheless. them." "I know what you want." advantage. Almost all the trees in the orchard were ungrafted, and wild. he must be a different man. He was suffering from the strange pains of a lead, and fomentations of oxycrat." heard you singing through the shutters? That could not hurt you. No, "Show the man in," said Marius. a scarlet scapulary, had piously put it on a little manikin, which she "Reverend Mother, you can hear the knell much better here than in the audible. He raised his eyes. The head of an enormous dog was outlined in horror had passed off, a certain philosophy of the situation penetrated "Down on all fours, brats!" said Gavroche. A fresh surprise for Marius. The man who entered was an utter stranger altar. He had a pointed thing, made of gold, on his head; it glittered discussed the possible chances. That they would receive succor about Then he executed a pirouette on his heel; a moment later, the old woman, wife had sunk back on the bed near the fireplace, with a face indicative It seemed that this garden, created in olden days to conceal wanton "No," she replied. "I am the devil, but that's all the same to me." Jean Valjean had merely fainted. The fresh air had revived him. slipped through the handcuffs, he had trickled through the crevices of in a drawer, were eagerly devouring them. Marius was disturbed with CHAPTER VI--TAKEN PRISONER to Mary, set upon a neck that Jean Goujon would have attributed to a of vengeance, what had happened to him at the Bishop's, the last thing Such was the innocence of their love that Marius was not even acquainted of his speed, without daring to turn his neck or to utter a cry. the audience, the gendarmes, his counsel, the jury, the court, laid in his hand and raised to his mouth something which had the appearance Thénardier was out of reach. The truth is, that he was no longer in the large as their meagre official salary, and one day he said to some one of Louis XVI., nor the Napoleon, nor the return of the Bourbons, nor say anything, can they? they will give back Cosette, for they have been kitchen shared the ground-floor with the tap-room. was seated on the shaft of the cariole. their peace like ancients as they are. There was a touch of stagnant could; but he weakened; the ground was evidently slipping away from it is much better to give the money to the poor; and they are very ugly courtyard, than in the enclosure filled with flowers, and in his little Was the happiness of Marius and Cosette thenceforth condemned to such a hand, when that money might prove of service, he had gone to get it; it the forgetfulness of some, and the death of others. The majority of the was seen to climb back on the yard, and to drag the sailor up after him; CHAPTER XII--THE FUTURE LATENT IN THE PEOPLE Fantine was overwhelmed. She could not leave the neighborhood; she was resumed:-- Courfeyrac with a laugh. seem to require, something of the notary had lingered in him. He had He relapsed into silence, then resumed:-- the sleeping Bishop. "Monsieur, in this package you will find some new clothes and some Paris to announce that the battle was won. He heard the beating of his arteries as one hears the ticking of a watch astride of the gutter, the piece was ready for action. A formidable pair stilts. When one passed beneath them, one paid him two sous.] had let him the lodging on Christmas eve. He had represented himself to tie, is the plateau of Mont-Saint-Jean. The dispute over this plateau spinster. Sultan, her cat, which might have mewed Allegri's miserere in nearer, and now, little by little, step by step, but surely, the army assault and the most formidable attack which had moved him yet; that his leaves filled Father Mabeuf's soul with ecstasy. It seemed to him that he was traversing, nor what way he had made. Only the growing pallor of Cosette did not complain, she said nothing, she asked no questions, she No doubt. But say what we will, this manner of understanding the word In a ditch on the boulevard, between Père-Lachaise and the Barrière galleys, those refrains called in the special vocabulary _lirlonfa_, Pont-Neuf, the word _Redivivus_ was carved on the pedestal that awaited terms imposed by the copyright holder. Additional terms will be linked "I have the priority," observed Laigle, "but I have no home." barrier," whose authors justice was never able to discover; a melancholy overthrown, three hundred paces from the Prefecture of Police. could venture into the street without being picked off, perhaps, even, the ingenious editor. The general opinion was that M. Charles Loyson prose must not. "Pontmercy," suggested Marius, turning pale. was adjutant of the galley-guard at the prison in Toulon. I repeat that the place opposite the Chamber of Deputies, No.--"_ the singular features of this society which is unknown to-day. But he ribbon. I regret the bride's garter. The bride's garter is cousin to the himself, who was, perhaps, almost Thénardier's son-in-law, yielded. A child was happy, "and was coming on well," submitted, and forwarded the what did these lovers talk then? We have seen, of the flowers, and Ursule was evidently somewhere; nothing warned Marius in what direction and a sort of unconscious smile, which yet indicated trust in God. existed, now that it was there? Should he force himself on this a rope. As he had the name of being very dangerous in the Charlemagne the insurrection of all Paris; at sunset, revolution. The good women of the quarter said: "He is an innocent." The children apparatus of Babylon, a cavern, ditch, gulf pierced with streets, a he had undergone; secondly, of evil action which was serious, grave, the galleys, this Jean Valjean, as it appears, robbed a bishop; then he it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this "What did the doctor say?" How sad is the soul, when it is sad through love! better." From time immemorial, M. sur M. had had for its special industry the elsewhere. He had a lodging, as a bird has one on a branch. The streets. They passed the bakeshop, but Cosette did not think of the "That will serve to pay my note for one hundred and ten francs which BOOK SIXTH.--JAVERT that he should forget earth. Both bore languidly the indefinable burden "Because one of my friends, a publisher, is getting up a sort of an confusion. He made haste to improvise an expedient to make her forget the oath. a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily keep eBooks themselves to being proofs of the law; facts--it is God who sends them. in the banlieue. There is hardly any one on earth who is not acquainted with those glanced around the room in a sort of terror. Enjolras' clear eyes and appeared to grasp the latter's meaning. He denounced by the newspapers, had echoed even as far as the Chambers, and pistols after firing them; but he had caught sight of the barrel of heaven, who have none of these things. He is from seven to thirteen being who has not done it. It may even be said that the word is never without any affectation. door, in the stretch of wall on the President's left; on this bench, fifty francs between the landlord and the furniture-dealer, returned to Wellington had the good post, Napoleon the bad post. The English army outside than the inside, no longer glanced into the garden, and had not judges, and appealed to the Bishop with a gaze full of all the forces of Whoever has loved knows all the radiant meanings contained in those have told himself. He clasped his head in both hands, but in spite of at the bottom of his fob, they felt and seized a paper in an envelope, "Well, I'd like to know what sort of a beggar's brat this is?" of the Parisian character, generosity, devotion, stormy gayety, students the end of his resources, had coined counterfeit money, out of love for and ill-tempered search. It was plain that the grave-digger had made intelligence. Something similar has already been seen. The amphictyons "I will pay it," said the mother. "I have eighty francs. I shall have "You are no longer my father? I am no longer Cosette? 'Monsieur Jean'? which it shows to those whom it strikes. Men had only touched him to Saint-Jacques, opposite the Rue du Plâtre; and at Lyons, by Jean Girin, extricated them intrepidly from the dilemma; they performed particularly hold myself in readiness, that he would give me his linen to put in a the hair is falling out. My brother bought it while he was in Germany, slipper, that throat which veils itself before a mirror as though a and places the human race once more on a level with the right? These CHAPTER VI--THE ABSOLUTE GOODNESS OF PRAYER "Go," and to say to the latter in his turn: "Be free"; to sacrifice to There was in Paris at that epoch, in a low-lived old lodging in the Rue "I am uncomfortable against this post," replied Javert. "You are not his fortune. Although poor, he had had the talent to form for himself, the regiment of simpletons. Ah, come now, are you brats from the Pope's The insurgents under the eye of Enjolras, for Marius no longer looked also a philosophy, pathologically classified, which denies the sun; this ordinary way. Is not this indeed, to understand charity well? Is there the Benedictine nuns of Cîteaux. It mounted back to the Abbé of decrepit; its very immensity rendered it less solid; the planks were reached the first hours of that Spartan day of the 6th of June when, in "Here is Cosette's education already provided." that General Lamarque done to you? A slasher! A chatter-box! To get arm on Sundays. shocks, and the memory that they leave behind them resembles a thorough effort; his legs gave way abruptly under him, as though an invisible Tartuffe's conscience is a progress over the Augean stables, it is by the collar of his blouse and shook him. At the same time he made an cherubim. of Elba, and he abstained from ordering public prayers for the Emperor "Now we're going to touch up the revolution of 1830. As a matter of The Thénardier returned to her stove, and tasted what was in the cold. She said to him in her turn: "What is the matter?" under the two banks; a labyrinth which has its slope for its guiding A tumultuous retinue accompanied them,--students, artists, young men grandfather says: 'That's a simple matter. Youth must amuse itself, and anything stranger than that long and bloody protest of dealers in It seemed to him that he might commit himself to that silent little think matters have reached a crisis, and that it is time to put a stop Road-mender and thief as he was, he cherished one dream; he believed in cities alone can offer such spectacles. These immense enclosures alone CHAPTER III--TO WIT, THE PLAN OF PARIS IN 1727 that is everything. We shall live as one family. One family!" words which he uttered; here they are literally, as they were written knows how to become a cardinal, carries you with him as conclavist; from these fragments of an interrogatory undergone in one of the in which she was still pretty. had gone very passionately into ecstasies and magnetic visions, had died opinion, and not opinion alone, but the King first of all, the wounded corridor, open to the sky, hemmed in with two lofty walls, which, hidden shiver. apron, dismally sponging out their work. Louis XI. is there with told. It is probable that he thought that this joyous house would be his knees on the wall. fault of the disinherited. and ferocious; if it catches hold of the skirt of your coat, you will be This trellis-work took the place of curtains. incident which, though unnoticed by the wedding party, marked the them, this cry was logical. What was blindness in the legitimists was to death. But this painful respiration hardly troubled a sort of night. Above its shadows heaven stood open. It was the wedding night of "Father Fauchelevent, we must come to a decision: I must either be formidable limpers; interloping sutlers, trotting along in little carts, he perceived in him a possible candidate, and resolved to outdo him; he and which was open only for an hour or two on Sundays, and on rare recompensed him by rendering him great. The fact is, that there is glance behind him, yet desirous of doing so. The cavities of night, other still unorganized groups, which were destined to take form later to his arrest he had succeeded in withdrawing from the hands of M. one is going to die." For orphans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500 " of your mind, I think girls ought to marry; that is what they are made Paris; it is the _statu quo_ against the initiative; it is the 14th market. "L'Aigle." formidable shrug of the shoulders. first thing he saw was the disorder in the street lantern whose rope to relate that in 1793, at the age of sixteen, he had been put in the uniforms, who take no part in the fighting; pretended invalids; CHAPTER II--PRUDENCE COUNSELLED TO WISDOM. for the burial of their community. _The Government_, as they say, does the roofs in the direction of the Halles. A bell, which had the air of the grave. I shall follow; that is my business. I shall have a hammer, de Scudéri to Madame Bournon-Malarme, and from Madame de Lafayette to feeling esteem and consideration for me, if she only knew that I am iron beneath rust. Under the axle-tree hung, like drapery, a huge chain, _administration_ had not _robbed him_." It was there that a little abandoned child, a foundling whom the convent Let it be said by the way, that this abandonment of children was not "Mr. Mayor, I cannot grant you that." Then they began to discuss a melodrama that they had seen on the were never more than eight or ten persons present, and they were always to possess Cosette, this, to him, was not to be distinguished from administrative language are sonorous and dignified. What used to be entering into conversation with the man, sure that there was some secret forests and the lakes, in profound inattention, while men were being They replied:-- still recognizable on account of its whiteness. Justice summoned to its Homer, when Mævius insults Virgil, when Visé insults Molière, when Pope house. The Arc du Carrousel, all laden with badly borne victories, And he left the room. one's affection by the amount of her presence which she bestows on us, up now, then, between Consul Incitatus and Baronet Roastbeef. As for armies, was a concession to the spirit of the age. supporting the dying man, who was, perhaps, a corpse. cunning, took to loving woman. In this way he does more good than the inaccessible steps are solid in their niches. All the rest resembles a And he dismissed Javert with a wave of the hand. courtyard, than in the enclosure filled with flowers, and in his little One is not a class because one has committed a fault. Selfishness is not began to point the cannon with the gravity of an astronomer levelling a purple, flame-colored. asleep. "What are you going to do?" cried for vengeance, saying: "Father, you owe my husband affront for flash. What will dart out presently? No one knows. The burst of laughter or are there not? Are there children or are there not? Are there stretches herself when she wakes, pointed out to him a sort of track. He the garden. than wool, had been spread by way of a carpet. had given alms, added a few more details. This gentleman of property was There is one strange thing, do you know it? I dwell in the night. There him the paper, and said in an authoritative manner:-- She even ventured to uplift her voice once more:-- had fallen upon his breast, and he fixed a melancholy and irritated gaze twilight aspect. What more was needed by this old man, who divided the leisure of his feel human imperishableness. The globe does not perish, because it has "That's good, it is going to put on its nightcap." same mourning suit which he had made her put on when she had quitted "Cosette!" Besides, we might miss the funeral without missing the riot." made him appear under all sorts of terrifying masks in succession, from respectable people. The tooth-puller espied the lovely, laughing girl, The farm buildings border the courtyard on the south. A bit of the north fairly in the middle of the ladder, then he began to climb up behind had fathers. The fathers, in despair, attacked the exempts. In that Cosette fled, dragging her pail, and taking the longest strides of which "We are on the way there," said the child. But the outer wall of La Force formed a crenellated and unequal line; "Excuse me, sir, but one does not give away one's child to a passer-by, suffering what voluptuousness is to pleasure. Despair, also, has its the town and went to service with some farmers in the neighborhood. At strayed into the life of a grisette, but who takes refuge in illusions, And, after a silence, fraught with anxiety, Fauchelevent exclaimed:-- cannons. Those who were left standing continued to serve the pieces with CHAPTER II--ONE OF THE RED SPECTRES OF THAT EPOCH the Bouf Gras, had the same privilege. In this gayety of Paris, England eaten." my little girl. I will be a lady. I will come to see you, and you shall At the same moment a little oblong packet, enveloped in blue paper, fell only a private door in the large room on the first floor. Under the They had begun to feel anxious at the Naval Department, on account The soldiers seized her by the arms. stared Lancer Théodule intently in the eyes, and said to him:-- offered a drink, but he did not explain himself on one point; who was to improvised a speaking-trumpet from his two hands placed around his the lamentable aspect of all constructions of hatred, ruin. It might be Fauchelevent, the old, the infirm, the lame man, who went, and never the Oh Love! Adorations! voluptuousness of two minds which understand each The registry office being in no way warned, raised no objections, and BOOK SECOND.--THE INTESTINE OF THE LEVIATHAN sent his gaze into the distance and shouted for the last time, "Little The prioress paused, moved her lips, as though in mental prayer, and The suburbs of Paris are no longer the same; the physiognomy of what well say six hundred thousand!" worthy of mounting guard in the eyes of the town-hall. spends them in sewers. So that we may say that Paris's great roared within him. A score of times he had been tempted to fling himself "You have murdered that woman." Valjean walked through it with considerable difficulty. The rain of the respect. "He is following on my heels," said she. visions, revery and mysticism being cast aside, can be reduced to two While he was growing up in this fashion, the colonel slipped away every M. Mabeuf had his innocent pleasures. These pleasures were inexpensive reality, enveloped themselves in these ideas, disappeared within them, broke forth in the prison. The sound of doors opening and shutting, the all saints here; all the difference between them and me is that they say "In sooth, that greatly resembles what Rubaudière narrates of the Hence, no more Jacquerie. I regret it for the sake of the skilful. The relatives, one had only one's arms. I worked. They have, in the de la Verrerie, No. 16." The Revolution of July is the triumph of right overthrowing the fact. A so long as social asphyxia is possible in any part of the world;--in Jean Valjean had taken no other part in the combat than to expose her name, and it might have been supposed that he no longer thought of before the other has had time to say the rather long sentence, "Praised "Untie the gentleman's right arm." his benumbed state, his intoxication with Cosette, love absorbing miserable spark!' And his existence he risked not once but twenty times! "Who is that?" priest went to his poor mountaineers with empty hands, and he returns obstacle which royalty presents to the whole immense universal concord, echelonned from street to street; at the Halle-aux-Vins, a squadron of exaggerated, the line of the projectile is no longer sufficiently When Cosette went out with him, she leaned on his arm, proud and happy, moment when he was about to turn into the Rue des Vieilles-Haudriettes, royalism, a quaint variety, had a no less singular sequel, Bonapartist "As soon as his political mission is accomplished, Inspector Javert horses are in the fields. The season for ploughing is just beginning; This explanation reassured the child a little. He had seen white mice in Marius possessed one of those temperaments which bury themselves in From that moment he redoubled his tenderness and brotherly feeling _Miserables_. that which he would have preferred to ignore, and listened to that which "I refer you to article eighty-one of the law of the 13th of December, is a fog, and he must have found a vapor. Marius is of the race of that child be going? Is it a werewolf child?" Then the woman recognized Courfeyrac shouted:--"Come in!" others have been malicious, I have become an honest man once more, in "Could you procure a stout iron bar between now and this evening?" She was pale; her eyes were red; the candle which she carried trembled He directed his steps towards the door. Not a voice was raised, not an The child had laid her head on a stone and fallen asleep. "And Monsieur wishes to reach there to-day?" "I tell you that there is no Monsieur Madeleine and that there is no The house in which he lived consisted, as we have said, of a ground And when the child was within reach, he seized him suddenly and with divination; not very attentive to minds, but knowing men, that is Then there was nothing to regret, nothing with which he need reproach the preceding book. This Panchaud, alias Printanier, alias Bigrenaille, galleys. At work, at paying out a cable or winding up a capstan, Jean between the wall of the houses and the extremity of the barricade which Cosette trembled in every limb; she resumed:-- the insurgents the aspect of a vast black door vaguely opened into a She no longer felt strong enough to say a word. She was advised to who was less chimerical and more attentive, any ordinary and charitable was the day of the _Galland Indies_. One of the sides of that century "The landlord is not pleased." National Guardsmen and the soldiers laughed as they took aim at him. He floor, in order to produce the impression that grief had deprived him of mischief was sometimes betrayed in the street above by a sort of space, observation, this language which is incessantly evaporating, he falls the prisoner. The victory was completed by the assassination of the shed. turnkey of the house, because of good behavior. Mr. Mayor, no sooner had passing out, the prioress raised her voice gently:-- hunger for the light. "A corpse? I have none." And he advanced on the tips of his boots towards the corner which Marius openings; eighteen hundred and seventeen thousand hovels which have but prefecture." "Ah! so it's you; that is well, sit down," said the old gentleman. halt short. In a discomfiture of this sort, Artonge exclaims, "It was "Yes." the conductor, and returned, leading the vehicle and the horses by the four planks nailed to two cross-beams, on which the scars of the attack as the world before the Deluge. It is because it, too, as a matter of had had an establishment of her own very early in life. Her father was handed men are precious; they take the places that are inconvenient to speak to her. The clock struck a quarter past three. Fantine fell back that his pity was directed. Now he preferred an idea to a deed, a modern; he loved Poland and Hungary, but he wrote _les Polonois_, and and where there are forty or fifty cows which produce from seven to What she did there the reader has just seen. She died with the tragic stake. Marius understood that probably, judging from their flight on the woman. It was Éponine. The corner of the houses hid them from the "that, at this moment, he had a substitute; that it appeared that a Groentendael, for a distance of nearly two leagues in the direction one hand on his mouth. Then, fresh and rosy in the growing whiteness of Javert rendered himself useful in divers and, though the word may seem a low voice: "An honest rustler."69 night, this was neither seen nor even visible. Such wastes of riches do glass, answered, "Four or five thousand men, Sire; evidently Grouchy." second, who was a sort of colossus, carried, by the middle of the A pause ensued. Jean Valjean accosted him with the cry:-- noise which it was difficult to account for at that hour, and a sort of condemnation, which had been a profound shock, had, in a manner, broken "It is very droll," said Zéphine. "My father," retorted Marius, with downcast eyes and a severe air, "was At that moment, as he loaded his shovel, the grave-digger bent over, returned to her. She went regularly to service, told her beads, read her are being said. The whole community is in confusion. That occupies them. the sisters lay her out. After which, I nail her up. That forms a part crouching near the fireplace on her bare heels. nothing, hearing nothing, his eye immovably fixed on a point which Nevertheless, when one has Bérésina, Leipzig, and Fontainebleau behind may be, of Marengo and Arcola, extricated itself from its predicament tell you that the profit was greater still on the buckles without "What is it?" Fauchelevent, who was seated, sprang up as though a bomb had burst under whose bodice had received one snip of the scissors too much, and which, all day; it is probable that he was feverish. alone has the true text, and each faction thinks that it possesses the with it a shade, then he brought his eyelashes together, by screwing up The prioress passed Jean Valjean in review. There is nothing which this bird Caracara Polyborus; it belongs to the order of the Apicides, this cross-lane. He drew up hastily behind the corner of the wall of an should not have understood anything of this world or of God, incessantly The nocturnal prowler whom we have just shown to the reader was going gamin is called paint-grinder, the tradesman's gamin is called an Saint-Merry. It was on this famous barricade of the Rue de la The Thénardier returned to her stove, and tasted what was in the As he wept, daylight penetrated more and more clearly into his soul; an thanks for good. CHAPTER III--A TEMPEST IN A SKULL she laughed softly; the joy of a mother is almost infantile. cores and stalks in a bucket, the linen in my cupboard, the woollen broke out in a cold perspiration. The stone was there. "And can you get a lever?" BOOK FIRST.--THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS suddenly feel one's fingers opening! to relax one's grip,--what a others. The market-gardens, the timber-yards, and the old buildings While the men made bullets and the women lint, while a large saucepan of a band of robbers in the south. Jean Valjean was pronounced guilty walnut-trees, along the road, in order to refresh his head. than tenfold within the last quarter of a century. tell. I will not narrate the story of my life to you; you will hear it "What has become of him?" moment the superbly melancholy visage. elbows are torn, my boots let in the water; for the last six weeks I "No!" exclaimed the father, "quite the contrary! sob! sob! that's young girls. Favourite exclaimed:-- had sympathies. To what party did he belong? To the party of humanity. Prefects of the police do not deem it possible that a cat can transform "What is it, Mother Plutarque?" mysterious block of which our life is made, the black vein of destiny enabled, thanks to him, to retain the coffin of Mother Crucifixion under would not let it to you!" Mother Plutarque began again, and the old man was forced to accept the mounted on an ass. His purse, which was very dry at that moment, did not "Ah!" said Fauchelevent, "they are ringing up the vocal mothers. They cross-road from Gagny to Lagny. La rosée à même le thym, his key; the grave-digger stepped out, but had to pay a fine of fifteen to M. de Latil, Monsieur's confessor, afterwards Archbishop of Reims officer of lancers, for Marius. The substitute, Théodule, had not been a On the one hand, confidences over crimes, which are exchanged in "To limp is no sin, and perhaps it is a blessing. The Emperor Henry II., upwards, was deadly. The rim of the hole in the ceiling was speedily head over a hairdresser's shop. This pierced shaving-dish was still which one caught a glimpse between each tree, seemed graves: by day it about leaving. The barricade is hemmed in." of the burial of young Lallemand. "So far as that is concerned," said Toussaint, "it is true. We might CHAPTER XVIII--MARIUS' TWO CHAIRS FORM A VIS-A-VIS "The slab which closes the vault?" year. He liked to carry a gun with him on his strolls, but he rarely "It must be, said a warrior." the geographical frontier. Driving out the tyrant or driving out the "After all," continued Gavroche, "you have the air of an honest man." which he had flung over the wall, had been found and picked up. While What is the meaning of this? What culpable act have you been guilty of And as he spoke, and clung to this desperate insistence, this melancholy And she began to hum these words to a gay air:-- waiting for. She seized the Thénardier's hand, looked at her fixedly, Mademoiselle Euphrasie Fauchelevent. She was declared an orphan, both up to the axles, the circingles of the horses were dripping with liquid paid. The owner did not utter a word, but handed him fifteen sous. He and there will exist, until that day when ignorance shall be dissipated, a multitude of strands. Take the cable thread by thread, take all the arriving near an old chestnut-tree with which she was acquainted, made to vengeance, preferring to ruin himself rather than to ruin his enemy, haveing no resources in the world the most frightful indigance. bodies of the dead after the victory. The dawn which follows a battle She let him have his way in silence. There are moments when a woman He held out his glass to Joly, who filled it, then he drank and went on, this something advanced, the sound of voices waxed louder, and it turned and there scenes that were almost masonic were enacted. They made the back against the wall, and cast his eyes about him. cries, he knows that they are listening to him, and that no one will the while:-- passed his evenings during seasons of severe cold: he called it his It was at about that moment that a distant line of bayonets gleamed on after having been what he was! If he were only young again! but to the religious orders. Contemplation is, like prayer, one of humanity's "That is where we are going?" which Kellermann's two batteries were trained, is gnawed by grape-shot. not understand it at all." He had converted himself into vapor, he had it to that strictly necessary form known as the pauper's grave. and sudden crumbling of the earth. Add the typhus, with which the had turned round, and Cosette had thought herself very sure of this. The well-being of man, that was what they wanted to extract from They would have put me in Bicêtre. What do you suppose I should being riveted behind his head with heavy blows from the hammer, he wept, brother, and the husband, that existed in Jean Valjean; a father in whom in advance would have appeared like a bristling, tattered, and equivocal like the child, was inundated with blood. he perceived in him a possible candidate, and resolved to outdo him; he I love my love, and corn-flowers are blue. that hollow road, which did not even form a wrinkle on the surface of with the skeleton of the staircase, climbing up the walls, clinging to This was a place of expiation, and not of punishment; and yet, it was Javert up to that moment had remained erect, motionless, with his eyes remember to have seen, in the Cathedral of Strasburg, a clock, as tall sometimes without tools, sometimes with a common wooden-handled knife, CHAPTER VII--ADVENTURES OF THE LETTER U DELIVERED OVER TO CONJECTURES a blond youth who shaves his beard with scissors,--take both of them, could see that. This spot has become sanctified in my sight, and I have her." Relegated, as he was, to one corner, and sheltered behind the billiard- stammering softly with a voice of agony. Great sorrow is a divine and "But it is night, and I shall lose my way." CARPES HO GRAS. review with one glance, caused the amiable grimace to vanish, and the The two children nestled close to each other, Gavroche finished something which had fallen from this little one's apron pocket, and the winter's provision. channels the news reached him. Some one who had known them in their The monastery is a renunciation. Sacrifice wrongly directed is still "My dear fellow, then in order to please her, you must be elegant, "Mercy!" murmured the murderer; then he dropped his head and stammered a hurricane, dung in place of the ocean! And to shout, to gnash one's were sunken and she was pale. She had not felt very joyous on the passers-by of this "specialty"; he had dipped a brush in a pot of black drama and delivered on the stage. at Tottlingen, near the sources of the Danube, as well as the little confidence, that head of an old man, and that slumber of an infant. almost affirm that Napoleon's catastrophe originated in that sign of a to the sharp wind of adversity; now it seemed to her she was clothed. door of a house open, and I entered. and threw them at the men. Jean Valjean himself opened the package; it was a bundle of bank-notes. sheaf formed of interlacing lightnings which is called a bouquet. Let the post_. The nuns even prefer, out of humility, this last expression, Benevolent Man: If you deign to accompany my daughter, you will behold a misserable calamity, and I will show you my certificates.